Ras

Böcker i denna genre konfronterar de komplexa verkligheterna kring rasidentitet, rättvisa och makt i samhället genom personliga berättelser, vetenskaplig analys och kulturell kommentar. Dessa viktiga verk granskar systemisk rasism, medborgerliga rättigheter, massfängslande, utbildningsreform och de levda erfarenheterna hos icke-vita personer i olika tider och på olika platser.

Ras Boksammanfattningar

Four Threats

av Suzanne Mettler • 2020

The four forces that repeatedly broke American democracy are peaking together for the first time.

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🏛️ American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🏢 Executive Power 💰 Economic Inequality 🗳️ Voting Rights

Four Threats

The four forces that repeatedly broke American democracy are peaking together for the first time.

av Suzanne Mettler 2020 301 sidor

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🏛️ American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🏢 Executive Power 💰 Economic Inequality 🗳️ Voting Rights

The Good Lord Bird

av James McBride • 2013

An enslaved boy mistaken for a girl joins John Brown's doomed holy war against slavery.

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🎭 Historical Satire 🗺️ Picaresque 🎀 Gender Disguise 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Found Family

The Good Lord Bird

An enslaved boy mistaken for a girl joins John Brown's doomed holy war against slavery.

av James McBride 2013 417 sidor

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🎭 Historical Satire 🗺️ Picaresque 🎀 Gender Disguise 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Found Family

Why We Kneel, How We Rise

av Michael Holding • 2021

Racism was built, not born. A cricketer exposes its architecture and what might dismantle it.

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🏛️ Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 🏟️ Race And Sports 📚 Decolonizing History ⚖️ Police Violence

Why We Kneel, How We Rise

Racism was built, not born. A cricketer exposes its architecture and what might dismantle it.

av Michael Holding 2021

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🏛️ Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 🏟️ Race And Sports 📚 Decolonizing History ⚖️ Police Violence

Disciples of White Jesus

av Angela Denker • 2025

A manufactured white savior is radicalizing American boys. The exit runs through tears, not swords.

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🏛️ White Christianity 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🙏 Masculinity And Faith ⚠️ Male Radicalization 💔 Toxic Masculinity

Disciples of White Jesus

A manufactured white savior is radicalizing American boys. The exit runs through tears, not swords.

av Angela Denker 2025 215 sidor

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🏛️ White Christianity 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🙏 Masculinity And Faith ⚠️ Male Radicalization 💔 Toxic Masculinity

Negro President

av Garry Wills • 2003

The math that made Jefferson president: electoral votes from people who could not vote.

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🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slave Power 📜 Constitutional Politics 🎩 Jefferson Scholarship 🗳️ Race And Democracy

Negro President

The math that made Jefferson president: electoral votes from people who could not vote.

av Garry Wills 2003

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285 betyg

🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ Slave Power 📜 Constitutional Politics 🎩 Jefferson Scholarship 🗳️ Race And Democracy

Hawaii

av James A. Michener • 1959

Five waves of strangers reach Hawaii, each certain the islands were made for them.

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🏠 Generational Family Saga 🌏 Cultural Collision 🧳 Immigrant Perseverance 🌋 Land Ownership Conflict 🌺 Mixed Race Identity

Hawaii

Five waves of strangers reach Hawaii, each certain the islands were made for them.

av James A. Michener 1959 1136 sidor

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🏠 Generational Family Saga 🌏 Cultural Collision 🧳 Immigrant Perseverance 🌋 Land Ownership Conflict 🌺 Mixed Race Identity

Taking America Back for God

av Andrew L. Whitehead • 2020

It wasn't faith that put Trump in the White House. It was Christian nationalism.

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⛪ Christian Nationalism ⚖️ Religion And Politics 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🙏 American Evangelicalism 👤 White Identity Politics

Taking America Back for God

It wasn't faith that put Trump in the White House. It was Christian nationalism.

av Andrew L. Whitehead 2020 288 sidor

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⛪ Christian Nationalism ⚖️ Religion And Politics 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🙏 American Evangelicalism 👤 White Identity Politics

This Vast Southern Empire

av Matthew Karp • 2016

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

This Vast Southern Empire

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

av Matthew Karp 2016 368 sidor

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

On Her Game

av Christine Brennan • 2025

The WNBA's most transformative star was the one its veterans and leaders least wanted to embrace.

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🏀 Women's Basketball 🏫 College Sports 💰 Sports Business ✊ Race And Sports 📜 Title IX

On Her Game

The WNBA's most transformative star was the one its veterans and leaders least wanted to embrace.

av Christine Brennan 2025 272 sidor

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🏀 Women's Basketball 🏫 College Sports 💰 Sports Business ✊ Race And Sports 📜 Title IX

Black Psychology

av Reginald Lanier Jones • 2002

Psychology was made for white people. Its tests, theories, diagnoses all misread Black minds.

4.62

🌍 Afrocentric Psychology 🔍 Critical Psychology 📝 Cultural Bias In Testing 🪞 Racial Identity Formation ⛓️ Colonial Mentality

Black Psychology

Psychology was made for white people. Its tests, theories, diagnoses all misread Black minds.

av Reginald Lanier Jones 2002 744 sidor

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🌍 Afrocentric Psychology 🔍 Critical Psychology 📝 Cultural Bias In Testing 🪞 Racial Identity Formation ⛓️ Colonial Mentality

The Color of Welfare

av Jill Quadagno • 1994

Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.

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🏛️ American Welfare State ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌪️ White Backlash ⚔️ War On Poverty 🏙️ Urban Segregation

The Color of Welfare

Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.

av Jill Quadagno 1994 272 sidor

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🏛️ American Welfare State ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌪️ White Backlash ⚔️ War On Poverty 🏙️ Urban Segregation

It Was All a Lie

av Stuart Stevens • 2020

Trump didn't hijack the GOP. A veteran strategist admits the party was always heading here.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📖 Political Memoir 🎭 White Grievance 🔄 Party Realignment 🗳️ Voter Suppression

It Was All a Lie

Trump didn't hijack the GOP. A veteran strategist admits the party was always heading here.

av Stuart Stevens 2020 256 sidor

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📖 Political Memoir 🎭 White Grievance 🔄 Party Realignment 🗳️ Voter Suppression

West of Slavery

av Kevin Waite • 2021

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

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🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

West of Slavery

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

av Kevin Waite 2021 384 sidor

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🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

The Next American Nation

av Michael Lind • 1995

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

3.95

📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

The Next American Nation

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

av Michael Lind 1995 448 sidor

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📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

An American Summer

av Alex Kotlowitz • 2019

172 killed, 793 wounded. One Chicago summer, inside the lives the violence leaves behind.

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🏙️ Urban Violence ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🔫 American Gun Violence 🧢 Gang Culture

An American Summer

172 killed, 793 wounded. One Chicago summer, inside the lives the violence leaves behind.

av Alex Kotlowitz 2019

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🏙️ Urban Violence ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🔫 American Gun Violence 🧢 Gang Culture

White Borders

av Reece Jones • 2021

Immigration law was never about fairness. From the founding, its purpose was keeping America white.

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📋 Immigration Policy 🚫 American Nativism 🚧 Racial Exclusion 🧬 Eugenics History 🎭 White Identity Politics

White Borders

Immigration law was never about fairness. From the founding, its purpose was keeping America white.

av Reece Jones 2021 272 sidor

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📋 Immigration Policy 🚫 American Nativism 🚧 Racial Exclusion 🧬 Eugenics History 🎭 White Identity Politics

Britain's Gulag

av Caroline Elkins • 2005

Britain ran a brutal camp system in Kenya, then spent decades hiding the bodies.

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👑 British Imperialism ✊ Mau Mau Uprising ⚖️ State Crimes 🕵️ Government Cover-Up ⛓️ Forced Labor Camps

Britain's Gulag

Britain ran a brutal camp system in Kenya, then spent decades hiding the bodies.

av Caroline Elkins 2005 496 sidor

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👑 British Imperialism ✊ Mau Mau Uprising ⚖️ State Crimes 🕵️ Government Cover-Up ⛓️ Forced Labor Camps

The Rise of Southern Republicans

av Black • 2002

Black Democrats and white Republicans made an unlikely alliance to redraw the South. It worked.

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🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Electoral Realignment ⚖️ Racial Polarization ✊ Voting Rights 📐 Redistricting

The Rise of Southern Republicans

Black Democrats and white Republicans made an unlikely alliance to redraw the South. It worked.

av Black 2002 454 sidor

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🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Electoral Realignment ⚖️ Racial Polarization ✊ Voting Rights 📐 Redistricting

2020

av Eric Klinenberg • 2024

COVID exposed America's preexisting condition: broken trust, racial inequality, willful forgetting.

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🦠 Pandemic Politics 🏥 Health Inequality ⚖️ Structural Racism ↔️ Political Polarization 🤝 Institutional Trust

2020

COVID exposed America's preexisting condition: broken trust, racial inequality, willful forgetting.

av Eric Klinenberg 2024 464 sidor

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🦠 Pandemic Politics 🏥 Health Inequality ⚖️ Structural Racism ↔️ Political Polarization 🤝 Institutional Trust

A Different Mirror

av Ronald Takaki • 1993

The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.

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🌍 Multicultural History 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America 🧳 Immigrant Experiences 🏹 Settler Colonialism 🔨 Labor History

A Different Mirror

The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.

av Ronald Takaki 1993 508 sidor

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🌍 Multicultural History 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America 🧳 Immigrant Experiences 🏹 Settler Colonialism 🔨 Labor History

Nations Apart

av Colin Woodard • 2025

Your politics and lifespan were set centuries ago, by whichever settlers claimed your region.

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🗺️ American Regionalism 🌎 Cultural Geography 📜 Historical Narratives ⚠️ Authoritarian Threat 🗽 Civic Nationalism

Nations Apart

Your politics and lifespan were set centuries ago, by whichever settlers claimed your region.

av Colin Woodard 2025 368 sidor

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🗺️ American Regionalism 🌎 Cultural Geography 📜 Historical Narratives ⚠️ Authoritarian Threat 🗽 Civic Nationalism

Home and Away

av Rochelle Alers • 2024

Shut out of sportswriting, a journalist writes her great-grandfather's Negro Leagues story instead.

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🏟️ Negro Leagues Baseball 📜 Dual Timeline Saga 👤 Women Behind The Men ✉️ Letters And Journals 🔓 Healing Family Secrets

Home and Away

Shut out of sportswriting, a journalist writes her great-grandfather's Negro Leagues story instead.

av Rochelle Alers 2024 368 sidor

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🏟️ Negro Leagues Baseball 📜 Dual Timeline Saga 👤 Women Behind The Men ✉️ Letters And Journals 🔓 Healing Family Secrets

Klan-destine Relationships

av Daryl Davis • 1997

Alone and unarmed, a Black pianist walks into a KKK motel room. The handshake changes everything.

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🤝 Race Relations 👻 White Supremacy 🔍 Immersion Journalism 🌉 Bridging Divides 🌱 Transformative Encounters

Klan-destine Relationships

Alone and unarmed, a Black pianist walks into a KKK motel room. The handshake changes everything.

av Daryl Davis 1997 315 sidor

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🤝 Race Relations 👻 White Supremacy 🔍 Immersion Journalism 🌉 Bridging Divides 🌱 Transformative Encounters

Slavery and the Founders

av Paul Finkelman • 1995

The Constitution was built to protect slavery. The founders' ideals were the alibi, not the plan.

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📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Slavery And The Law 🏛️ Founding Era Slavery 🧠 Racial Ideology 🔍 Revisionist History

Slavery and the Founders

The Constitution was built to protect slavery. The founders' ideals were the alibi, not the plan.

av Paul Finkelman 1995 272 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Slavery And The Law 🏛️ Founding Era Slavery 🧠 Racial Ideology 🔍 Revisionist History

The Ground Breaking

av Scott Ellsworth • 2021

Tulsa destroyed Black Wall Street in 1921, then spent a century burying the crime.

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🏚️ Tulsa Race Massacre 🤫 Suppressed History 🦴 Forensic Anthropology ⚖️ Reparations 🎙️ Oral History

The Ground Breaking

Tulsa destroyed Black Wall Street in 1921, then spent a century burying the crime.

av Scott Ellsworth 2021 323 sidor

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🏚️ Tulsa Race Massacre 🤫 Suppressed History 🦴 Forensic Anthropology ⚖️ Reparations 🎙️ Oral History

Paths Out of Dixie

av Robert Mickey • 2015

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

4.36

📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

Paths Out of Dixie

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

av Robert Mickey 2015 584 sidor

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📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

Slave Country

av Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Slave Country

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

av Adam Rothman 2005 312 sidor

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

A Handful of Hard Men

av Hannes Wessels • 2015

Fewer than 200 Rhodesian soldiers faced 10,000. They won every battle and still lost the war.

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⚔️ Special Forces 🎯 Counter-Insurgency 🥷 Covert Operations 🌐 Cold War Proxy Wars 🌍 African Decolonization

A Handful of Hard Men

Fewer than 200 Rhodesian soldiers faced 10,000. They won every battle and still lost the war.

av Hannes Wessels 2015 277 sidor

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⚔️ Special Forces 🎯 Counter-Insurgency 🥷 Covert Operations 🌐 Cold War Proxy Wars 🌍 African Decolonization

A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

av Eric Foner • 1990

After the Civil War, America built an interracial democracy, then destroyed it.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🕊️ Emancipation Studies 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Change

A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

After the Civil War, America built an interracial democracy, then destroyed it.

av Eric Foner 1990 297 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🕊️ Emancipation Studies 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Change

The Politics of Rage

av Dan T. Carter • 1995

A segregationist governor who never reached the White House gave the GOP its winning playbook.

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🏛️ Political Biography 🌐 Southern Politics ⚡ White Backlash 🖤 Racial Politics 🎙️ Populist Politics

The Politics of Rage

A segregationist governor who never reached the White House gave the GOP its winning playbook.

av Dan T. Carter 1995 580 sidor

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🏛️ Political Biography 🌐 Southern Politics ⚡ White Backlash 🖤 Racial Politics 🎙️ Populist Politics

White Supremacy

av George M. Fredrickson • 1981

Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.

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🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🎨 Color Line 🚧 Jim Crow 🇿🇦 Apartheid

White Supremacy

Same racial logic, different regimes: why America built Jim Crow and South Africa built apartheid.

av George M. Fredrickson 1981 384 sidor

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🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🎨 Color Line 🚧 Jim Crow 🇿🇦 Apartheid

From Politics to the Pews

av Michele F. Margolis • 2018

Partisanship leads, faith follows: five decades of data that reverse the religion-politics link.

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🗳️ Political Polarization ⛪ Religion And Politics 🇺🇸 American Religion 🎯 Partisan Identity ✝️ Religious Identity

From Politics to the Pews

Partisanship leads, faith follows: five decades of data that reverse the religion-politics link.

av Michele F. Margolis 2018 336 sidor

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🗳️ Political Polarization ⛪ Religion And Politics 🇺🇸 American Religion 🎯 Partisan Identity ✝️ Religious Identity

Negro League Baseball

av Neil Lanctot • 2004

Jackie Robinson's triumph was a death sentence for the Black-owned baseball world that produced him.

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🖤 Negro Leagues ⚾ Segregation And Sport 📈 Black Business History 💸 Integration's Cost 🚂 Great Migration

Negro League Baseball

Jackie Robinson's triumph was a death sentence for the Black-owned baseball world that produced him.

av Neil Lanctot 2004 512 sidor

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🖤 Negro Leagues ⚾ Segregation And Sport 📈 Black Business History 💸 Integration's Cost 🚂 Great Migration

The Bloody Shirt

av Stephen Budiansky • 2008

Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.

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📜 Reconstruction Era 🎯 Racial Terrorism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 🏛️ Civil War Memory ⚪ White Backlash

The Bloody Shirt

Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.

av Stephen Budiansky 2008 336 sidor

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📜 Reconstruction Era 🎯 Racial Terrorism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 🏛️ Civil War Memory ⚪ White Backlash

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

av Theda Skocpol • 2011

Organized, fired up, and factually adrift: the Tea Party paradox that reshaped the GOP.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🔴 Right-Wing Populism 🌱 Grassroots Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📡 Media Ecosystems

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

Organized, fired up, and factually adrift: the Tea Party paradox that reshaped the GOP.

av Theda Skocpol 2011 264 sidor

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🔴 Right-Wing Populism 🌱 Grassroots Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📡 Media Ecosystems

Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)]

av Lawrence W. Levine • 1977

White listeners heard contentment in the spirituals. They missed the coded defiance entirely.

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🧵 African American Folklore 🎶 Spirituals And Gospel 🎸 Blues History 🦊 Trickster Traditions 🛡️ Folk Resistance

Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)]

White listeners heard contentment in the spirituals. They missed the coded defiance entirely.

av Lawrence W. Levine 1977

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🧵 African American Folklore 🎶 Spirituals And Gospel 🎸 Blues History 🦊 Trickster Traditions 🛡️ Folk Resistance

A Nation Without Borders

av Steven Hahn • 2016

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

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🏛️ American Empire 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🏜️ New Western History ⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction 🗺️ Continental Expansion

A Nation Without Borders

The United States was an empire before it was a nation. Slavery, rebellion, and conquest built it.

av Steven Hahn 2016 608 sidor

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🏛️ American Empire 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🏜️ New Western History ⚔️ Civil War And Reconstruction 🗺️ Continental Expansion

Why the New Deal Matters

av Eric Rauchway • 2021

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

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🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Why the New Deal Matters

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

av Eric Rauchway 2021 232 sidor

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🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Black Power

av Stokely Carmichael • 1967

Racism isn't prejudice. It's a colonial system, and the only cure is politics by the colonized.

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🖤 Black Radicalism 🌍 Anti-Colonial Thought ✊ Community Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Politics ⛓️ Systemic Racism

Black Power

Racism isn't prejudice. It's a colonial system, and the only cure is politics by the colonized.

av Stokely Carmichael 1967 256 sidor

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🖤 Black Radicalism 🌍 Anti-Colonial Thought ✊ Community Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Politics ⛓️ Systemic Racism

Partisans

av Nicole Hemmer • 2022

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media 🌾 Populist Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

Partisans

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

av Nicole Hemmer 2022 368 sidor

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media 🌾 Populist Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

av Roberto Sirvent • 2019

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

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🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

av Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 sidor

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🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

The Promised Land

av Nicholas Lemann • 1991

The mechanical cotton picker displaced millions, and the cities they fled to were never the same.

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🚂 Great Migration 🏚️ Urban Poverty 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏢 Public Housing ⛓️ Structural Racism

The Promised Land

The mechanical cotton picker displaced millions, and the cities they fled to were never the same.

av Nicholas Lemann 1991 416 sidor

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🚂 Great Migration 🏚️ Urban Poverty 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏢 Public Housing ⛓️ Structural Racism

The Long Southern Strategy

av Angie Maxwell • 2019

White grievance, anti-feminism, and evangelicalism fused in the South, then nationalized the GOP.

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🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🎭 Racial Politics 🤍 White Identity Politics ✝️ American Evangelicalism

The Long Southern Strategy

White grievance, anti-feminism, and evangelicalism fused in the South, then nationalized the GOP.

av Angie Maxwell 2019 560 sidor

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🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🎭 Racial Politics 🤍 White Identity Politics ✝️ American Evangelicalism

A Nation Under Our Feet

av Steven Hahn • 2003

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

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🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧠 Black Political Thought 🛡️ Resistance And Survival

A Nation Under Our Feet

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

av Steven Hahn 2003 624 sidor

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🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧠 Black Political Thought 🛡️ Resistance And Survival

Fifty Words for Rain

av Asha Lemmie • 2020

Abandoned at a Kyoto estate, a mixed-race girl learns that survival means becoming invisible.

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🗾 Postwar Japan 📜 Family Saga 🌏 Mixed Race Identity 🤝 Sibling Bond 👤 Illegitimate Child

Fifty Words for Rain

Abandoned at a Kyoto estate, a mixed-race girl learns that survival means becoming invisible.

av Asha Lemmie 2020 449 sidor

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🗾 Postwar Japan 📜 Family Saga 🌏 Mixed Race Identity 🤝 Sibling Bond 👤 Illegitimate Child

Bad Faith

av Randall Balmer • 2021

The Religious Right was born not from Roe but from a fight to defend segregated Christian schools.

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📖 American Evangelicalism ⚖️ Abortion Politics 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏛️ Movement Conservatism 🔍 Historical Revisionism

Bad Faith

The Religious Right was born not from Roe but from a fight to defend segregated Christian schools.

av Randall Balmer 2021 144 sidor

4.25

500+ betyg

📖 American Evangelicalism ⚖️ Abortion Politics 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏛️ Movement Conservatism 🔍 Historical Revisionism

Slave Nation

av Alfred W. Blumrosen • 2005

The American Revolution was not about taxes. It began when a British judge ruled slavery illegal.

4.02

113

📜 American Revolution ⛵ Colonial America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Legal History Of Slavery 🏛️ Constitutional Origins

Slave Nation

The American Revolution was not about taxes. It began when a British judge ruled slavery illegal.

av Alfred W. Blumrosen 2005 304 sidor

4.02

113 betyg

📜 American Revolution ⛵ Colonial America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism ⚖️ Legal History Of Slavery 🏛️ Constitutional Origins

The Common Cause

av Robert G. Parkinson • 2016

Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.

4.10

⚔️ American Revolution 📢 Propaganda Studies 🎭 Racial Politics 📜 Newspaper History 🏛️ Founding Myths

The Common Cause

Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.

av Robert G. Parkinson 2016 742 sidor

4.10

49 betyg

⚔️ American Revolution 📢 Propaganda Studies 🎭 Racial Politics 📜 Newspaper History 🏛️ Founding Myths

The Black Imagination

av Sandra Jackson • 2010

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

4.33

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Black Imagination

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

av Sandra Jackson 2010 237 sidor

4.33

12 betyg

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

Inharmonious

av Tammye Huf • 2025

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

4.41

500+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

Inharmonious

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

av Tammye Huf 2025 360 sidor

4.41

500+ betyg

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

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